Get Into the Halloween Spirit With These 4 Books by Autistic Women

It’s almost Halloween! Like any book-lover worth their salt, I’m getting into the spirit by reading some supernatural thrillers and murder mysteries…with a neurodivergent twist! I’ve gathered together a shortlist of four underrated books by autistic women to help us all get our spook on.

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Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp

“A shocking thriller about a group of friends who go to a cabin to play a murder mystery game…only to have the game turned against them, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends.”

FIVE friends go to a cabin.
FOUR of them are hiding secrets.
THREE years of history bind them.
TWO are doomed from the start.
ONE person wants to end this.
NO ONE IS SAFE.

Five friends take a trip to a cabin. It’s supposed to be one last getaway before going their separate ways — a chance to say goodbye to each other, and to the game they’ve been playing for the past three years. But they’re all dealing with their own demons, and they’re all hiding secrets.

And as they start to play the murder mystery game that brought them together in the first place…